Black Mirror Season 7 has an episode about a sim game where you take care of cute little creatures, and here’s the twist: it’s a real game you can play right now

Black Mirror Season 7 has begun streaming on Netflix, and one of its episodes, “Plaything,” is about a sim game from the 1990s where players care for little critters in the wild and teach them to survive on their own. The fictional game is called Thronglets, and guess what? It’s not so fictional after all….

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It took me 25 hours to ‘finish’ puzzle strategy game Blue Prince—and 15 hours after that I’m still uncovering new mysteries

The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince—and I’m talking about the first time I played a demo way back in March of 2024—I noticed something interesting about one of its rooms. I won’t say what it was that I noticed—I’m going to be obnoxiously vague throughout this…

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Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change

It’s that time of the GPU season where we patiently await affordable graphics cards after the initial high-end launches (and yes, referring to a generation as a ‘GPU season’ is a thing, okay). And while there’s no official word yet from Nvidia or AMD regarding new low-end cards, rumours and leaks abound, the latest being…

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Nintendo Download: 10th April (North America)

Star Overdrive! Monument Valley! Promise Mascot Agency! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. Before we jump into this week’s download, let’s address the elephant in the room — last week was a little bit crazy, and that means certain…

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